How to cook black fragrant rice to make it delicious? How to cook black fragrant rice

Black fragrant rice is a kind of rice food with purple-black color and natural aroma. It looks similar to rice, but the rice grains are thinner and longer than rice. Usually it is suitable for cooking porridge, but many people feel that they can't cook porridge with black fragrant rice. What should they do? How to cook black fragrant rice to make it delicious? Next, I will introduce this issue to you, and I will also write down the method of cooking black fragrant rice to share with you.

How to cook black fragrant rice

1. Black fragrant rice tastes best after being washed with clean water before cooking. However, when washing black fragrant rice, be sure to put the black fragrant rice in clean water and gently stir it in a clockwise direction with your hands. Do not rub it hard, otherwise it will damage the surface of the black fragrant rice, causing a large amount of anthocyanins and oryzanol it contains to be lost, and it will also affect the taste after it is cooked.

2. Black fragrant rice tastes better after soaking it in water, because black fragrant rice is a particularly difficult ingredient to cook. It is difficult to cook it directly in a pot with water. If you can soak it in water in advance, you can shorten its cooking time and make the cooked black fragrant rice taste better. But when soaking black fragrant rice, you must pay attention to washing it first, then soaking it in water, and then putting the black fragrant rice and the water into the pot to cook after soaking. If you change the water, it will also affect the taste of the cooked black fragrant rice.

Black rice recipes

1. Cook porridge

Cooking porridge is the most common way to cook black fragrant rice. When cooking porridge with it, you can prepare an appropriate amount of brown sugar and 100 grams of black fragrant rice. Wash the black fragrant rice with clean water, then put it in a clean basin and soak it in clean water. After three hours, put the water and black fragrant rice into the pot and heat them to a boil. Simmer over low heat. After fifteen minutes, add the prepared brown sugar, mix well and cook for about half an hour. At this time, the black fragrant rice porridge in the pot can be cooked and can be eaten after turning off the heat.

2. Make flower rolls

Black fragrant rice can also be used to make steamed buns. When making it, soak the black fragrant rice in advance and cook it in a pot until it is 90% cooked. After taking it out, remove the rice soup, add an appropriate amount of yeast, add an appropriate amount of flour and white sugar, mix well and knead it into dough. Put it in a warm environment to ferment for three hours. After its volume doubles, take it out and knead it evenly, then make them into steamed buns and steam them in a pot.